A friend of my parents was visiting when I was about 5 years old. It was raining outside and he had been out jogging. My mother remarked that he was barely wet from the rain, and he said jokingly that he had been running zigzag between the raindrops. I didn't get the joke, and for at least a year (maybe a few years) I thought it was actually possible to run in the rain and not get wet by running zigzag.
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris
- I used to believe reindeer made it rain because for many years it rained on christmas eve night.Anon
- I used to think that Rain Man had something to do with Singin' in the Rain.Anon